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3.2. Managing the land by advocating the law that with possessing ceylon land one man must serve as corvee;
4.They strove for their personal rights by making petitions, fleeing, resisting rent and corvee and even waging armed struggle.
6.The early days of the war of resistance witnessed excessive assignments of corvee duties and wasting of manpower, but these were soon corrected.
7.The corvee assigned by Gaxag and manorial lords accounted for over 50 percent of the labor of serf households, and could go as high as 70-80 percent.
8.The plunder of manpower is even more horrifying. A great many able-bodied men have been press-ganged and the amount of corvee can hardly be calculated.
9.The 75-year-old Soinam said, "I used to till the land of my master, and I belonged to him day and night. When asked to do corvee at midnight, I dared not wait till dawn the next day. Now I have received land. I feel I can sleep well and have a good appetite. I really want to live several years longer so that I can see the happy future."
10.In her reign that lasted as long as 45 years, Empress WU Tse-tien had positive effects basically in four aspects: she pacified revolts and kept the nation united; she developed imperial examinations and selected extensively persons with ability; she reduced corvee and taxes, and attached importance to farming and manufacturing; she remained tolerant and open-minded, and accepted expostulations and advices alike.
